In the spring of 2006 I headed to the family farm in southern Indiana to see if I could find a suitable tree. I hiked around with my folks for a few days, and we eventually settled on a Sycamore tree that had grown out of an old stump. The tree had sprouted 5 trunks, and it looked like we could fit a good sized treehouse between them.
I wanted to put the tree up a good distance off the ground. After climbing around in trees all weekend I realized being up high in a tree was a bit more frightening than I expected. 16 feet off the ground seemed like a reasonable distance.
My dad and I measured the circumference of each trunk, and also measured the distance from each trunk to every other trunk. This allowed me to create a scale drawing of the tree at sixteen feet. I headed back to Colorado for the summer with enough information to start designing the treehouse.
1 comments:
Superb design. Its spooky that this is almost exactly the plan that was brewing in my mind. Similar to a freestanding style (unattached to tree) tree house I made 5 years ago.
Your tree house is great. A very strong solid wooden platform with large laminated main beams made from plywood and 2xlumbar then tethered by chains.. using heavy metal brackets in corners etc. Most designs I have seen online are structurally weak and make no allowance for tree motion.
Nice job.
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